# "classical" music I like but don't know it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504 "2012-11-01T00:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/21 "2012-11-01T23:21:20Z")
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons - Winter shows up in jewelry and luxury car commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/22 "2012-11-01T23:48:32Z")
Bugs Bunny stole everything ever. Funny radio broadcast transcript [here](http://www.compactdiscoveries.com/CompactDiscoveriesScripts/116CartoonClassics.html) There’s also a set of two CDs listed on amazon - [Bugs Bunny on Broadway](http://www.amazon.com/Bugs-Bunny-Broadway-George-Daugherty/dp/B000002LOA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351813618&sr=8-1&keywords=bugs+bunny+on+broadway), and [Bugs Bunny at the Symphony](http://www.amazon.com/Bugs-Bunny-at-Symphony-Sydney/dp/B003PIUICE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351813618&sr=8-2&keywords=bugs+bunny+on+broadway). Bet you’d recognize most, if not all, of those, and I’d also bet that quite a few of them will trigger specific memories of individual cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/23 "2012-11-02T00:55:01Z")
You’ve probably heard the Prelude part of Charpentier’s Te Deum, but the whole thing is worth a listen. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/24 "2012-11-02T01:28:35Z")
Ah yes, cartoons! If you’re familiar with Tom & Jerry’s “Cat Concerto,” you’ll recognize Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt. I just learned from reading Wiki to get the exact title that the same piece was used in “Rhapsody Rabbit.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/25 "2012-11-02T03:18:39Z")
[William Tell Overture.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&feature=fvwrel) If you haven’t listened to the entire thing, you’ll be surprised at how familiar it is – and I don’t just mean the finale. [Poet and Peasant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/26 "2012-11-02T03:32:26Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [William Tell Overture.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&feature=fvwrel) If you haven’t listened to the entire thing, you’ll be surprised at how familiar it is – and I don’t just mean the finale. Yes, the [opening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RM7cQCC4sU) of the Overture should be quite familiar, **Sigene**. And, in a similar vein, Grieg’s [Morning Mood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY&feature=related) from _Peer Gynt_. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/27 "2012-11-02T03:37:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [William Tell Overture.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&feature=fvwrel) If you haven’t listened to the entire thing, you’ll be surprised at how familiar it is – and I don’t just mean the finale. > [@jayjay](#): > > Yes, the [opening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RM7cQCC4sU) of the Overture should be quite familiar, **Sigene**. That’s actually well into [the Overture](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gzgcGrE2M), not the beginning… ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/28 "2012-11-02T04:54:36Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You’ve probably heard the Prelude part of Charpentier’s Te Deum, but the whole thing is worth a listen. Try [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWyOKbyK8) recording. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/29 "2012-11-02T05:10:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Yes, the [opening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RM7cQCC4sU) of the Overture should be quite familiar, **Sigene**. Nitpick - That isn’t actually the opening. It’s the third of four parts, [Ranz Des Vaches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_tell_overture#Structure) ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/30 "2012-11-02T05:14:55Z")
Claire du lune, Debussy A little night music, WAM Water Music, Handel Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Rachmananoff ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/31 "2012-11-02T05:26:42Z")
I’ll stick with opera melodies that many people know. Verdi’s [La Donna e Mobile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM) from Rigoletto. Verdi’s [Anvil Chorus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWPlCbokSU) from Il Trovatore. Verdi’s [Libiamo ne’ lieti calici](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcKdnkGBSgA) from La Traviata. Puccini’s [O mio babbino caro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuYQ9KRJms) from Gianni Schicchi. Puccini’s [Un bel di vedremo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woH96ROG-c) from Madama Butterfly. Leoncavallo’s [Vesti la giubba](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4) from Pagliacci. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/32 "2012-11-02T05:49:32Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Aaron Copland’s **Fanfare for the Common Man** - **The Olympics** For The Olympics, I’m of the age that I first think of [Bugler’s Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBJB0FRMuc), by Leo Arnaud. (Written in 1958, so we’re definitely extending the OP’s timeframe.) ABC used that as their theme until NBC outbid them for the 1988 Summer Olympics (and all since, I think). NBC commissioned a new theme by John Williams. _Bugler’s Dream_ was so strongly associate with the Olympics that NBC has even used it as a hybrid with the Williams theme. I think one of the networks (CBS?) used to use a snippet of _Fanfare for the Common Man_ as the intro to its golf telecasts, probably back in the '70s. That’s from the dusty, back corner of my memory, though. There was definitely something very brassy like that. Can anybody confirm or deny? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/33 "2012-11-02T05:56:25Z")
If you’ve ever seen “Jaws,” you’ll recognize the beginning of the 4th movement of Dvorak’s [New World Symphony](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc). ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/34 "2012-11-03T03:25:01Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/35 "2012-11-03T05:03:21Z")
I kinda dig these… Mason Williams - Classical Gas [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3evoeWCoKA4/hqdefault.jpg "Classical Gas Live") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3evoeWCoKA4) Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue (L’Amour Est Bleu) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QTo9-lmZ6oE/hqdefault.jpg "Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu) - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL MONO MIX") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTo9-lmZ6oE) ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/36 "2012-11-04T02:40:16Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [William Tell Overture.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ&feature=fvwrel) If you haven’t listened to the entire thing, you’ll be surprised at how familiar it is – and I don’t just mean the finale. > > [Poet and Peasant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U) Along the lines of William Tell, another piece of “horse-riding music” familiar to viewers of Bugs Bunny cartoons and the like is the 2nd theme of von Suppe’s [overture to Light Cavalry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5nhMIyeqI&feature=player_detailpage#t=143s) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/37 "2012-11-04T03:32:58Z")
If you’ve ever attended a wedding, you may have heard [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5FOW2ekHo) and [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7_m1om82o4). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/38 "2012-11-04T05:18:24Z")
For some modern classics, check out the work of Karl Jenkins. [Palladio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqmbz8W1-tA) [Sanctus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dIOLbwZJDs&feature=relmfu) [Adiemus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VlZOg9iv4) ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/39 "2012-11-05T22:21:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > That’s actually well into [the Overture](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gzgcGrE2M), not the beginning… Yeah, in the middle of it is also a section which gets used a lot for ships at sea during a huge storm (in the above link it starts around 3:30)… ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/40 "2012-11-05T22:44:47Z")
If you’ve seen the movie _Chocolat_, then Erik Satie’s [Gnossienne No.1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0) should sound very familiar. (I think the version used in the film is an arrangement by Rachel Portman, so it’s close, but not an exact match.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504.md?page=3)